Dreaming of Dixie How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Name: Dreaming of Dixie How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9781469609867

ISBN-10: 146960986X

ISBN-13: 9781469609867

Edition: 2013

Authors: Karen L. Cox

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From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton.In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of this constructed nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, especially advertising agencies, musicians, publishers, radio personalities, writers, and filmmakers playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. Cox…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748

Karen L. Cox is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.